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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems with Emacs 28
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:22:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eelkvui9.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sga0o6k0.fsf@zoho.eu

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> destructive - changes the value in the actual argument variables.
> It would seem this requires "call by name" or "call by reference", not
> "call by value", right? (Unless the value is a memory location,
> perhaps...)

"Might change a passed value".  This is possible in Elisp when the value
is a sequence for example (unless the value is nil - remember your
not-in-place problem?).  `setcar' receives a cons value and modifies it.

Eieio objects and even closures are other examples.


Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-27 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-23 16:50 problems with Emacs 28 Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 17:33 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-23 18:02   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24  1:55   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 12:56     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24 12:57     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24  9:46   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 17:00     ` Drew Adams
2020-10-24 19:26       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-24 22:11         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24 22:08       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-25 12:13       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-10-25 14:15         ` Drew Adams
2020-10-27  0:29           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-27 10:22             ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2020-10-28 16:21             ` Jens C. Jensen
2020-10-28 17:07               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 17:18               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-31 18:26                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 13:51                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:22   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-24  0:13   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-23 19:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-24  0:14   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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